Philosophy of Art

to execute, so too does art express the highest archetypes within itself. The natural philosopher wants to prove nature up to the point of identity with God, art presents that identity as present.

4 A similar bond unites art with religion; the total impossibility of art to provide anything other than a poetic world, as within religion and through religion, the impossibility on the other hand to bring the latter to a truly objective appearance other than through art, makes the scientific knowledge of the same a necessity for the religious relationship. — Just as the divine principle can only express its fullness in nature, so on the other hand its immediate expression is art. Is, and how is, a philosophy of art possible? The proof and the manner of its possibility is its very reality, because that which is ideal is also real within the realm of the ∞ Infinite. One speaks here and there of the application of philosophical principles to other objects and calls such a procedure philosophical